If we started today, we couldn't see a full recovery of our country in our lifetime. It's so disheartening. It's so much worse than I could have expected.

Probably the most painful part is having so few people willing to stem the tide.

I've been working towards something that can read text in an old video game's menus for two years now. Every step in detecting things is glacial.

It's a real shame the imports are subject to the 25 year gray market rules but it's even worse what the import market is right now. There are deals out there, but it's a headache.

That s10 sounds well loved, the maintenance worries are never fun after all those miles.

It really is!

It really is!

Yup, most all of them from this generation were manual. I had a friend teach me the basics of driving a manual for a day before I flew out to buy this one. It was a learning experience, but ended up being very easy to drive!

I have to set this up with a hard truth: I'm an idiot when it comes to working on cars and also don't have a good environment or tools to work on it.

But they are very mechanically simple and easy to work on. The most popular vehicle in Japan for years, parts are in good supply, even Stateside.

So just asking for curiosity, not because anyone has done this yet. Certainly not me. What would happen if I had gathered exactly that combination of things and actions?

Ok, the Foobar2000 list makes me look crazy. It's almost entirely breakcore and prog rock. Fuck.

Excited to get home and run this for Foobar from my computer. That'll be a way more straightforward list of music I specifically choose to listen to. Lots more whole albums and genre consistency. My phone is driving music almost exclusively, a list of 2600 songs from a 30,000 song library.

Stepping back and looking at this list is confusing. I adore every song on this list but the random play on this app was running a bit wild on some of it.